Great Places launches Resilience Fund grants for 2023

Building on the previous success of our grants to organisations offering support to Great Places customers and the local community with the cost-of-living crisis, we are pleased to launch our Resilience Fund for 2023.

£100k in grants will be available through this year’s Greater Together Foundation Resilience Fund. These will be distributed on a commissioning basis with our Community Investment Team’s Community and Partnership Managers managing the allocation of funds for their regions.

The Community and Partnership Managers will help to identify community organisations that are eligible for the fund and provide guidance with their application if required.

Grants of up to £10,000 will be made available to organisations that can clearly demonstrate support with the following themes:

• Economic hardship; to include access to fuel, furniture, and food.
• Economically Inactive; people in need of support to remove barriers to training and employment.
• Financial Resilience; to include budgeting, income maximisation, debt advice, debt management, access to available credit, and numeracy courses.
• Health and Wellbeing (social prescribing) access to services and activities that support people’s physical and mental health.
• Digital Inclusion; to include training, access to data and devices and smart technologies.

Interested applicants need to read the guidance notes

• Guidance notes

Then complete the application form:

• Application form

or contact the Community Investment Team to find out more about the grant opportunity and the application process.

All completed application forms need to be emailed to Kimberly.McBride@greatplaces.org.uk

The deadline for applications is Sunday 5 November.